Machine for snapping and husking ears of corn.



J. F. MAST. MACHINE FOR SNAPPING AND HUSKING EARS 0F 001m. APPLICATION IiLED 00T.3. 1910,

1,021,321. Patented Mar. 26,1912.

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JOSEPH F. MAST, F HARPER, KANSAS.

MACHINE FOR SNAPPING AND HUSKING EARS OF CORN.

Specification of Letters Patent Xatented Mar. 26, 1912.

Apiplication filed beam- 3, 1910. SerialNo. 585,136.

more especially to a machine arranged to deliver the cars'ort' corn into a Wagon While the same is stationary, the noun stalks from a shock being placed by hand in the 'machine and carried thereby laterally between. the snapping and bushing rolls thereof, my object being to produce a machine ot this character- :t'or etliciently and expeditiously snapping the cars from the stalks and hnskin; such ears after time stalks have been cut.

Vith thisgenci'al object in view the invention consistsin certain novel. and peculiar features of construction and organization as hereinafter described and claimed; and in order that it may be fully understood reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1, is a plan view of a machine embodying my invention. Fig. 2, is a vertical section on the line II-II ofl ig. 1. Fig. 3, is an end View of the same.

In, the said drawing, a rectangular -frame adapted to be secured upon a wagon box in any suitable manner, is preferably composed of parallel side bars it and end bars 2. Near its front end it is preferably provided with a cross bar 3 connected by short bars 4L with the front end of bar 2, to form a bed or platform for the motor 5, such as a gas engine, as shown. Near the front end of one of the barsl, and at the rear end of said -bar are uprights 6 connected by a longitudinallyextending bridge bar 7, and between said bar 1, and bridge bar 7 is a longitudinally extending shaft 8, journaled in standards 6,

and a longitudinally extending shaft 9 also bearing a journaled relation to said standards shaft- Obeing disposed vertically above and parallel with shaft 8, and mounted upon said shafts 8 and 9 respectively, are relatively short rolls 10 and 11, these rolls being for the purpose of snapping the cord from the stalks as the latter successively pass between the rolls, in a manner hereinafter oxplaincd. At opposite ends of the roll 10, the frame is provided with a pair ol parallel 7 cross bars 12, these cross bars incidentally forming a journal for shaft 8 and projecting beyond the adjacent side of the frame, and journalcd in bars 12 is a roller '13, equipped at its ends with sprocket wheels 14, connected by parallel sprocket chains 15, with sprocket wheels 16 secured at the ends of a roller 17 at the opposite side of roll 10 from roller '13, the arrangement being suchthat the upper runs of the chain 15 shall be disposed adjacent to the opposite ends and in about the plane of the top of roll 10, the lower runs of the chains below the plane of said roll as shown clearly in Fig. 2.

The shaft 18 of roller 17 projects forward beyond the front cross bar 2, and is journaled in a bearing bracket 19 projecting from the front standard 6, and atits front end said shaft is equipped with a belt wheel 20 connected by a belt 21 with the belt wheel 22 on the front end of the shaft 8, said shaft also carrying'a belt Wheel 23 connected by a belt'24- with the engi'ne 5, so that the opcr ation of the latter shall impart rotation to shaft 8- and its roll 10, and also to the endless conveyer constituted by rollers '13 and 17 and chains 15. Shaft 8 is also equipped with a gear wheel 25 meshing with a similar gear wheel 26 on the front end of the shaft 9, of roll 11, so that said roll shall be driyen by roll 10.

In operation ,the corn stalks are placed successively upon the endless conveyer, be-

ing. arranged longitudinally thereon,as instalk and incidentally expelling the corn from the husks, the said rolls l0 and 11 beinn disposed sufficiently close together to prevent the cars from passing between them so that the same shall drop down into the .bedof the WZIQ'OII, the stalks-passing on between said rolls and oil roller 17 onto the ground or into a suitable receptacle placed to receive them. By thus feeding the stalks to the rolls in a position parallel with the same. practically all of the cars can be snapped oil and hushed simultaneously and therefore more expeditiously and eronomically than is possible where the stalks are fed endwisc to the husking rolls.

a From the above description it will be apparent that I have produced a machine possessing the features of advantage enumerated as desirable and I wish it to be understood that I reserve the right to make all changes properly falling within the spirit and scope of the appended claim.

Having thus described t 1e invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by'Letters Patent, is v A machine for snapping and husking ears of corn, consisting of a suitable frame, upg right-s thereon,

a bridge bar connecting the uprights vertically over one side of said rights between frame, a pair of snapping and husking rolls journaled one above the other in said upthe bridge bar and said frame, a pair of barssecured upon the said frame and projecting beyond the side there- 'its upper strand or of over which the bridge bar is'disposed an endless-open conveyer arranged between the frame and bridge bar and the said bars, with run ping rolls and extending longitudinally beyond the same, means for operating the conveyer, means for imparting movement from the eonveyer to the undermost roll and gear wheels connecting said rolls to cause them to feed the stalks between them toward the side of the frame beyond which said bars project.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature, in the presence of two witnesses.

Josnrn r. MAST. Witnesses: 4

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